Love Potion - 4

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PART 4
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Part2
Part3
Tarini started replying, "No, my parents’ wish is not the only reason for which I agreed to marry him, but yes...it did take me some time to come out of the inhibitions I had about his character"

"Then how did you come out of that?"

"I could see that he was really truthful when I spoke to him for the first time, so I just gave a lil thought after that, after all, all the teenage perceptions we had need not be always true...As time floats, we mature and grow in our way of thinking, in our way of judging people and everything...The way I saw life at that age is completely different from the way I see it now, so I was sure Arun also would've had that same difference in him."

"But Tarini, I am sure some of your friends would've tried to threaten you"

"Yeah true, to all my friends it looked like, I was risking my own life. Anyways, I thought, I would rather take a cognizant risky path instead of getting lost in some unknown, uncertain wonderland. And now I see wonderland in the very same known path which I took!"

Arun who was really moved by his wife's answer was beaming with all smiles in his face.

"Ok Arun, it’s your turn now" This time everyone was so eager to fire questions on Arun.

"Hey Arun, now you tell! How’s the married life going on for you?

"Hmm...Not going on well..."

"What?" Everyone stared at him with raised eyebrows.

"Yeah, it’s not going on well actually, its going very very well. It’s just rocking"

Tarini stared at him with a fake anger on her face. Again the questions followed.

"Hey Arun, we see a totally new person packed up in your physique, what’s going on man? What did Tarini do to you?"

Both Arun and Tarini started giggling, Arun said, "Is it? I don't find any such big difference..."

Arun's friend who gave bachelor's party that day blasted out, "Then why did you run off from the bachelor's party that night? You didn't even bother to join us in the party"

"Hey no daa, actually..."

"There is no need for any explanations...Tarini! What did you do to him? Hope you are not running some military regime at home..."

"What? Me??? I have absolutely no role in this, even I have asked him so many times about why he quit drinking after marriage, but he has never given any proper answer for that till now"

"What is it Arun? As far as we know, you don’t like anybody forcing you to do things, then how come such a leap change all of a sudden?"

"Yeah that's true, I don't like anybody forcing me to do things, actually the truth is I've not stopped boozing, I am consuming something else instead of alcohol daily" Arun said with a twinkle in his eyes.

"Something else, what's that?"

"Yeah, Tarini started giving it to me after I got to know her. You know…it’s even worse than alcohol"

This time Tarini was really perplexed, she asked him, "What's that I am giving you even without my knowledge?"

"It’s the love potion which I have each and every moment I spend with you or even when I think of you"

Everyone were really amused now, there were many murmurs like "The love potion!!! What's that?"

"Yeah...She didn't actually demand anything out of me even after the wedding, never even once she complained about my lavish lifestyle, my irregular routines, or my passion for partying or boozing or anything else. May be...Had she done it, I wouldn't have changed so much...All she did was to shower her unconditional love on me...As I started losing myself in that intangible love of hers, I could figure out what she likes and what she hates, there was no need for any words or arguments...So, I made myself a deserved candidate for the love potion, which turned out to be the elixir of my life."

“Hmm, really big funda, that too to hear from you daa,!!! All the best for a great future, you too Tarini!”

Tarini said, “Hey thanks so much yaar, life is just really great now”

But Arun had a different answer, “Hmm…I would say life is just next to great now”

Tarini now started staring at him, “Why is it next to great, haan?”

With full of smiles and sparkle in his eyes Arun said, “It’ll be completely great in a short while”

“Hey congrats, so you are expecting…that’s really great news, So Arun, you are waiting for a cute little daughter like Tarini?”

“No way, I can’t have a daughter; I am praying it should be a boy” Arun’s answer was very firm.

Everybody started giggling, “Hey Arun! Just now you said, you like her a lot and all that…But you don’t want a daughter like her?”

“I know how many people were ogling at Taru in college. Even I’ve done it…But I don’t want any goddamn fella to ogle at my daughter, that too, we don’t know how its gonna be in the next generation, really difficult to keep a watch on all those things…So it’s better if it’s a boy”

“Hey Arun! What if your daughter gets your looks?”
Everybody around started laughing really hard. With that merry mood, the get-together came to an end.

Preety was almost in tears then, but this time it was tears of joy.

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